Kaiser Permanente Northern California

Resident Research

Many of our programs have a research requirement built into their curriculums. At Kaiser Permanenete we strongly encourage our residents to conduct research. We provide support in the form of research statisticians from The Division of Research (DOR), our Resident Research Course which explains how to take a research project from idea to publication, funding for residents who wish to present their research at regional and national meetings, and forums for our residents to present their findings to their peers.

Bay Area Resident Research Symposium

The 24th Annual BARRS Conference for Otolaryngology was held Friday, June 6, 2008 at the Berkeley Doubletree Hotel. There were 16 presentations representing the programs from Kaiser Oakland, UC San Francisco and Loma Linda University. Our keynote speaker was Dr. Scott Manning, MD, professor and Chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology / HNS at Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Seattle and the University of Washington School of Medicine. The judging panel was Dr. Manning, Dr. Michael Friduss of Kaiser Santa Clara and Dr. Steven Pletcher from UCSF.

Awards were presented to the following:

Clinical Science

  • Siri Cheng, Kaiser "Clinical Trial Comparing Radiofrequency Ablation Tonsillectomy versus Floseal or Electrocautery Hemostasis Tonsillectomy"
  • Dan Monin, Kaiser "Stable Rates of Cervical Human Papilloma Virus Infection and Abnormal Pap Smears in Women with Head and Neck Cancer in Regards to Both Tissue Type and Tumor Location"
  • Eugene Snissarenko, Loma Linda "Minimally Invasive Video Assisted Thyroidectomy: Two Year Experience"

Case Report

  • Jafer Ali, UCSF "Botulinum Toxin in the Treatment of First Bite Syndrome"

Resident Research Symposium

Modeled after the BARRS Conference for Otolarygology, the 6th Annual Northern California Resident Research Symposium for Obstetrics and Gynecology was held on Saturday, April 12, 2008 in Kaiser Oakland. The judging panel was comprised of Walter Kinney, MD, Aaron Caughey, MD, and Deborah Wachs, MD. This year, 10 residents from the three Northern California OB/GYN residency programs presented research projects. For more information, please visit each program's research page.

 

Division of Research at Oakland

Kaiser Permanente Northern California is home to our Division of Research (DOR). The DOR was founded in 1961 and today its staff of over 400 is actively involved with over 220 active research projects. The DOR and our residency programs have an established relationship, and residents who require access to patient databases, statistics, and other analytical services can contact the DOR for assistance in project planning, data collection and processing. For more on the DOR, visit their webpage here.